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Well, I know 5000 is the Universal Plug and Play (not to be confused with the plug and play system for detecting hardware) networking thingymabob (don't you just love when I use technical languaage?). There is a known exploit for this, so I hope you've installed the patch from Microsoft. I think you can disable it from the services menu (Go to the "run" command line interface and type in "msconfig" without the quote and hit enter. You should be able to find it from there. Or, you can go to Steve Gibson's web site www.grc.com and download a small utility called Unplug and Pray (People might not like Steve but he's got a great sense of humor). You can install it and use it to enable/disable Universal Plug and Play as you like. Hope this helps.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(Romans 6:23, WEB)

Well, 135,445, 1025, and 5000 are consistent with XP's port list. I don't remember port 1029, but it just sounds like some program asked for a port and windows gave it a nice port close to 1024. Shouldn't be a problem. Even though 1025 is listed as blackjack, tha port really doesn't have anything to do with blackjack. As with the 1029, it's just nice and close to 1024 so windows probably assigned it to some service that starts at bootup.